On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:56:03AM +0000, Matt Bernstein wrote:
> On Feb 11 Jerome Quelin wrote:
>
> >In order to apply these rules, I slightly modified your submissions to meet
> >the requirements (ie, add a "$_=pop", or a " -l" flag, etc.). If the
> >modifications were too important, your submission is counted as "not ok".
>
> $_=pop returns the last argument, unless there's more magic under the
> bonnet. shift gets what you want.
But if there's only one argument, the first argument is
also the last. And since pop is 3 character long and shift score
an incredibly prolix total of 5 characters...
Joy,
`/anick
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Love, the reeling midnight through
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